Recipients
View recipients of the Hutton Medal.
Latest recipient
Andrew Allan has been awarded the 2024 Hutton Medal for world-leading research on plant genomics, in support of New Zealand’s plant breeding programmes.
Previous recipients
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2023 |
Nicholas Golledge for cutting-edge contributions to Antarctic ice-sheet modelling, climate-change research and the impacts of melting ice on global sea level, ocean circulation and climate variability. |
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2022 |
Rupert Sutherland for fundamental discoveries in global plate tectonics, the evolution of Zealandia and the implications for active faulting and large magnitude earthquakes in New Zealand. |
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2021 |
Richard McDowell for his outstanding contributions to the knowledge of contaminant loses from land to water and informing environmental policy. |
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2020 |
Neil Gemmell for fundamentally changing our understanding of animal ecology and evolution and driving the development of new approaches for conservation and management of the world’s rarest species. |
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2019 |
Philip Hulme for his outstanding contributions to the knowledge of plant invasions in New Zealand, especially his innovative insights in why and how non-native plants become invasive weeds. |
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2018 |
Bruce Hayward for outstanding contributions to the knowledge of New Zealand's marine ecology and geology. |
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2017 |
Roger Cooper for his contributions to understanding the geological foundations and the earliest organisms of Zealandia and beyond and for his role in maintaining and developing paleobiology expertise in New Zealand, which uses rocks to study ancient biology |
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2016 |
Wendy Nelson for her significant contributions to understanding the diversity, biology and evolution of marine macroalgae |
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2015 |
Lionel Carter for his career-long contributions to marine geology in New Zealand through fundamental investigations of sea-floor geological processes and their application to assessment of hazards and resources |
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2014 |
Not awarded |
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2013 |
Dave Kelly for developing knowledge of native flora in New Zealand and defining the key interactions between plants and animals. He has made long-term studies of South Island ecosystems, including decade-long studies to understand ‘mast seeding’ where plant species synchronise production of an unusually large seed crop. |
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2012 |
R. Ewan Fordyce for his seminal contributions in New Zealand vertebrate paleontology, particularly for whales, dolphins and penguins. |
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2011 |
Robert Poulin for his leading research in the field of parasitic diseases, especially for his work in ecological parasitology, an area of particular relevance to New Zealand’s marine and freshwater ecosystems. |
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2010 |
David Galloway for his significant contributions to understanding the New Zealand environment, particularly through his botanical work on New Zealand lichens. |
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2009 |
Colin Wilson for his outstanding work on volcanism. |
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2008 |
Bryce Buddle for his world-leading research into controlling infectious animal diseases. |
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2006 |
Colin James Webb for major contributions to plant systematics and evolutionary biology. |
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2004 |
Campbell Symes Nelson for major contributions in the fields of sedimentology and paleoclimate research. |
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2002 |
Roger Morris for his outstanding contribution to the advancement of animal science as a veterinarian and epidemiologist. |
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2000 |
Henry Eamonn Connor and Elizabeth Edgar for their extremely meritorious contributions to the botanical classification and documentation of New Zealand’s flora. |
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1999 |
Hugh Mannering Bibby for fundamental contributions to earth sciences in earth deformation analysis and geo-electrical prospecting. |
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1998 |
Alan Henry Kirton for his outstanding contribution to meat science and technology. |
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1997 |
Alan Francis Mark |
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1996 |
Richard John Norris for his major impact on the understanding of geologial processes at the continental (New Zealand) plate boundary |
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1995 |
Geoffrey Thomas Sandford Baylis |
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1992 |
George Hodge Scott |
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1989 |
Rufus Michael Grant Wells |
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1986 |
Eric John Godley |
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1983 |
Richard Patrick Suggate |
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1980 |
George Alexander Knox |
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1977 |
William Raymond Philipson |
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1974 |
Maxwell Gage |
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1971 |
Raymond Robert Forster |
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1968 |
Norcott de Bisson Hornibrook |
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1965 |
Lucy Beatrice Moore |
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1962 |
Howard Barraclough Fell |
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1959 |
Laurence Robert Richardson |
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1956 |
Charles Alexander Fleming |
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1953 |
John Marwick |
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1950 |
Walter Reginald Brook Oliver |
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1947 |
Charles Andrew Cotton |
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1944 |
William Noel Benson |
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1941 |
Harry Howard Allan |
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1938 |
David Miller |
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1935 |
Gordon Herriot Cunningham |
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1932 |
John Arthur Bartrum |
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1929 |
George Vernon Hudson |
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1926 |
Charles Chilton |
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1923 |
James Allan Thomson |
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1920 |
John Ernest Holloway |
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1917 |
Patrick Marshall |
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1914 |
Leonard Cockayne |
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1911 |
William Blaxland Benham |